“But to reach…the pinnacle of power, it will be necessary, to climb rugged heights.”

“The higher they climbed in their struggle to reach the top, the harder grew their toil. When one height had been mastered, a second opens and springs up before their aching sight.”
Quoque magis subiere iugo atque euadere nisi erexere gradum, crescit labor. ardua supra sese aperit fessis et nascitur altera moles.

“The rugged trees are mingling
Their flowery sprays in love;
The ivy climbs the laurel
To clasp the boughs above.”

“So it was that Lone came to know himself; and like the handful of people who have done so before him he found, at this pinnacle, the rugged foot of a mountain.”

“When wisdom reaches the pinnacle of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.”

“Men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from boyhood the steps of these studies and thus, nursed by the knowledge of many arts and sciences, having reached the heights of the holy ground of architecture.”

“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”

“Patience is the most important part of the maturing process. It is the highest form of effort in reaching the pinnacle of wisdom.”

“There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.”

“Having climbed to a height, it is easier to slip from it than to stay there after the zest of striving is removed.”